TRENTON — The attorney for the joint legislative committee investigating the controversial George Washington Bridge lane closures is expected to meet today with Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich, who has said he suspects the massive traffic jam in his community was political payback for declining to endorse Gov. Chris Christie last year, according to the committee chairman.

The Joint Select Committee for Investigation has issued 38 subpoenas for records from various Port Authority of New York and New Jersey officials, staffers from the governor's office, the governor's campaign committee.

Depending upon what those documents reveal, "It's fair to say ultimately the committee, counsel, or both, wants to interview just about all of the folks we have subpoenaed," said Assemblyman John Wisniewski (D-Middlesex), committee co-chairman.

It made sense for the committee's attorney Reid Schar, to start the interviewing process with Sokolich, Wisniewski said, to determine why he believes the lane closures were politically motivated, Wisniewski said.

Thousands of pages of subpoenaed records have been pouring in to the committee although none has been released yet.